Gears of War Realm

We at Gears of War Realm are launching the much anticipated Gears of War Wiki Strategy Guide today.

It needs a lot of work still as I’m still playing through the game and completing the Single Player Walkthrough section of the Guide.

But we figured we’d open it up to people today to get community involvement going. With the community binding together I think we could have a really excellent Gears of War guide on our hands with the wiki project.

Also to help spread the word, please digg the story.

I wanted to give everyone a little tease of what is to come here at Gears of War Realm. Right now we’re working on putting together not only our Gears of War WikiGuide that we talked about yesterday, but also some other great content for everyone. We’re going to have video clips of all the exciting Gears of War cutscenes action as well as helpful videos for defeating those bosses we all know and love. We will probably give video walkthroughs of all the Multiplayer Maps as well.

Here is a quick taste of what’s to come.

Well I’ve had my copy of Gears of War for about a day now, and it lives up to everything I expected so far. I haven’t even scratched the surface of the single player campaign yet, and love it so far. I’ve actually been addicted to the multiplayer game so far, getting used to the gameplay mechanics and getting owned on a regular basis. But after taking too many beatings, I’m going to take the advice of some fellow players and start to play the game on Hardcore because it’s the best training method available to those wanting to play multiplayer. So I’ll be skipping the Casual mode and going right to Hardcore. So far the Hardcore AI has kept me on my toes. Expect a full review once I wrap up with the game.

Over the next few days I’ll start to lay down the ground work for our Wiki strategy guide that I have mentioned before. Hopefully I can launch it sometime in the next few days, so the community can help it grow into the best resource online for Gears of War. We just want to get some of the structure in place before we let everyone into it to start contributing. So please check back if you are interested in helping out the community. We may also be giving away goodies to the best contributors over the next month, but that’ll be announced officially once it’s launched.

Also, I am going to sweeten the pot of the contest. Now the first place winner will receive a Gears of War: Collectors Edition instead of the standard edition of the game. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Collectors Edition and decided to give that away instead. So if you haven’t yet, go and sign up because there is still plenty of time left! As a tease, here is some sweet shots of the Collectors Edition box from Xboxygen.

We at Gears of War Realm have received one copy of Gears of War today. Everyone should be able to find the game in stores Nationwide today. Sadly the Collectors edition of the game is not out today, but our writer Drew got his today without even preordering!

We are firing it up right now and will be updating the site here throughout the night with various information.

The game does appear to have an update available on Xbox Live. Not sure what it does but it was a quick update.

Here is an image of the box taken by my webcam:

Update 7:00pm
For those interested, you can watch Drew’s progression through the game via his Xbox Live Profile Page

In celebration of the upcoming Emergence Day launch of Gears of War on November 7th, we at Gears of War Realm are launching our biggest contest yet. The contest will be a referral link contest, so you will place a Gears of War advertisement image on your MySpace page, forum signatures, personal websites, or or anywhere you think you can get clicks.

The top five (5) users who generate the most unique hits during the month of November will win prizes. The contest runs for the entire month of November, from November 1st, 2006 until November 30th, 2006.

So what do you get for promoting Gears of War and our website Gears of War Realm? We are giving away a copy of Gears of War for the Xbox 360, two limited edition E3 2006 faceplates, and five Gears of War T-Shirts. Sounding good yet?

Click Here To Enter The Contest

The contest starts tomorrow, so better get the banner placed on your pages and get to work promoting!

Also keep an eye out for four mini contests that we’ll be running during the month. These contests can be anything and will only be announced after they have been awarded. I may throw some clues out but I can say being active in our forums and in our story comments is a good start.

You looking to get the special edition E3 2006 Gears of War faceplate for your Xbox 360 without dropping hundreds of dollars on eBay? Well here’s your chance, because we at Gears of War Realm are giving one away!

So if you are interested you should sign up now! To sign up, follow these five easy steps.

1. Go over to the Realm Media Networks Forums
2. Register a new account in the forums; if you don’t have one already.
3. Once a day, put a single reply in this thread with something that excites you about the upcoming game Gears of War. Please try to be original, we’d like to see some good meaningful posts.

The contest will run for a week; until 11:59 PM on July 11th, 2006. Keep in mind that you can enter once per day during the week.

Now for the rules; posting multiple entries per day or creating multiple accounts will result in you being banned from this and all future contests. Also only one entry per household/computer/email account.

Also, the next iteration of the contest will be atleast a month long and will require some skill and creativity. We also hope that we’re able to throw in some extra bonuses as well to some of the winners. More on this contest in the coming months once we pound out the details.

I know a lot of you are patiently awaiting news on our Gears of War E3 2006 faceplate contest. Well it’s was delayed a month because I got really busy getting our new Realm Media Networks Forums up and running stable. The forums system is normally used as the registration point for any contest we run, but our web host has been having problems keeping the forums up and running properly. Now that most of those problems are behind us, I’m launching the first contest tomorrow!

The contest will run for a week; from 12:00 AM midnight Central Standard Time on July 4th, 2006 until 11:59 PM on July 11th, 2006. So if you want to get a hold of the limited edition faceplate from E3 2006, hop on over to our Realm Media Networks Forums, register a new account if you don’t have one already, and put a single reply in this thread with something that excites you about the upcoming game Gears of War. You can also enter once per day during the week. A word to the wise, multiple entries per day or creating multiple accounts will result in you being banned from this and all future contests.

Also, the next iteration of the contest will be atleast a month long and will require some skill and creativity. We also hope that we’re able to throw in some extra bonuses as well to some of the winners. More on this contest in the coming month.

We have put up our first of two parts of my Gears of War preview. This segment of the preview discusses the single player campaign demos we saw at E3 2006. There wasn’t much to see at E3 other than the first level, but I think that first level gives us a good taste of the possibilities the entire game will provide.

Continue on to Part I of the Gears of War Preview.

We should have Part II, which covers the multiplayer aspects of the game, completed early next week. So stay tuned for that, and also remember that we’ll have a Gears of War Xbox 360 Faceplate contest in the coming weeks.

TeamXbox, has put up a story discussing the inevitable: the sale of the Gears of War Limited Edition Xbox 360 face plates from E3 on eBay. For those who don’t know what the face plates are, during E3 last week, Microsoft was giving away Gears of War faceplates to anyone who was lucky enough to get behind closed doors to play Gears of War at the Xbox booth.

The faceplates are currently selling for as much as $200, and are expected to grab even more. Even CliffyB made a joke during the demo he gave, about getting them to sell on ebay. Even the editors over at TeamXbox are talking about off-loading their face plates, according to their article. While that is a good idea if you want to make a quick buck, I am going to keep mine; which is looking quite good on the front of my Xbox 360 right now (pictured at right).

But before you go out and shell out your hard earned cash on a Gears of War faceplate, you may want to keep on reading. I say this because we here at Gears of War Realm have some extra faceplates; which we don’t intend to sell. Instead, some of the kind contributors at our parent site, Realm Media Networks, gave up their face plates to be given away here on Gears of War Realm to some lucky readers over the months leading up to the release of Gears of War!

Stay tuned for more details on the first faceplate contest, which we expect to fire off sometime around Memorial Day 2006.

The Gears of War Forum is now open, a bit earlier than we originally planned. We figured we’d want to provide the fans a place to discuss GoW happenings during E3, instead of after E3 as our original plan entailed. You will be able to find the link to the forums at the top of the page under the logo.

The current forum is part of our The Realm of Mortal Kombat Forums which will eventually become the Realm Media Forums. But since that conversion wont be complete until late May or early June we wanted to atleast provide readers a place to discuss the news outside of our comment system.

So enjoy and post away, I have a feeling as E3 hits next week there will be a LOT to talk about.